What will the workshop include?

Hands on experiences with free, classroom-ready resources that target the Digital Technologies curriculum;

Introduction to various programming tools available, including visual and text-based programming, and object-oriented approaches;

Hands on activities for Blockly and Python programming, covering coding aspects of the Years 5-6 and 7-8 curriculum, focusing on defining and decomposing real-world problems, designing algorithms and implementing programs.

Who runs these workshops?

The Australian Computing Academy (ACA) has funding from the federal government to deliver workshops to teachers across Australia to learn about programming and related concepts in Digital Technologies.

This workshop helps teachers better understand the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies, and introduces freely available resources for use in the classroom.

The workshops are delivered by Academy educators who are developing the DT Challenges. They are a mix of academics, teachers, and specialists in digital technologies.

What should I bring?

Bring yourself and a laptop. We'll organise the rest, including lunch and a snack, as well as lots of classroom ready resources to take away.

Please go to the 10th floor of the Mitchell centre, to be escorted to the 13th floor.

The DT Challenges and workshops are an initiative of, and funded by, the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.